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Re: 2017-18 NHL Hockey Season Thread

Meanwhile in the American Hockey League, the 2018 AHL Calder Cup playoffs is down to their Frozen Four.

In the Eastern Conference Finals, it is a battle between two #1 seeds.

The Toronto Maple Leafs AHL affiliate and MacGregor Kilpatrick trophy winners, the Toronto Marlies take on the Philadelphia Flyers' AHL team, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms to see who will be the Eastern Conference representative in the Calder Cup finals.

Trevor Moore, Andreas Johansson and the Marlies swept the Tampa Bay Lightning AHL affiliate Syracuse Crunch in four straight to take the North Division playoff bracket.

As for Alex Lyon, Christ Conner and the Phantoms, they eliminated the Carolina Hurricanes' AHL squad, the Charlotte Checkers in five games to take the Atlantic Division bracket including a historical win in Game 4 inside Bojgangles' Coliseum.

Alex Krushelnyski scored the winner at 6:48 of the fifth overtime period and Lyon made 94 saves on 95 shots.

The previous record was 82:58 in 2008 and it also featured the Flyers and Hurricanes AHL affiliates where the Philadelphia Phantoms edged the Albany River Rats 3-2 in Game 5 of their 2008 East Division semifinals encounter.https://theahl.com/marathon-men-phan...-ahl-game-ever

In the Western Conference Finals, it was underdog stories as the Chicago Blackhawks' AHL squad, the Rockford Icehogs and the Dallas Stars' AHL squad, the Texas Stars meet to see who will be the Western Conference representative in the 2018 Calder Cup finals.

Chris DiDomenico leads all AHL players in playoff points with 11 as the Icehogs swept their first two playoff series against the top seed of the Central Division bracket in the Chicago Wolves, the Vegas Golden Knights' AHL affiliate, in the Central Division semifinals 3-0 and swept the second seeded Manitoba Moose in the Central Division final 4-0.

As for the Stars, Brian Flynn and company used overtime to win the Pacific Division bracket as they upended the Los Angeles Kings' AHL side, the Ontario Reign, 3-1 and the Pacific Division champions and the best regular season team in the West, the Tucson Roadrunners, 4-1, to reach the Frozen Four.

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Jets defenseman Dustin Byfuglien is a big boy. Listed at 6-foot-5, 260 pounds, I would call him an immovable object if not for the fact that he’s usually moving toward you. And it’s gonna go badly for you.

Hell, it’s gonna go badly for you even if you’re the one with all the momentum. From Game 1, here’s Alex Tuch—at 6-foot-4 and 222, no small fry—trying to hit Byfuglien when he should be off-balance.

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Meanwhile in the first two quarterfinal matches in the 2018 IIHF World Championships in Denmark...

The United States and Canada punched their ticket to the semifinals.

Team USA edged out the Czech Republic, 3-2, to punch their ticket to the Frozen Four.

Patrick Kane and Cam Atkinson gave the Americans a 2-0 lead in the first period.

However, the Czechs equalized at 2-2 after two periods as Michal Repik got his team on the board 4:56 of the second period at and Martin Necas struck on the power play at 10:55.

Pavel Francouz kept his team in the game with 28 saves.

But Kane beat him at 6:58 of the third period to send the Americans to the semifinals on Saturday where they await the winner of Sweden and Latvia.

As for the Canadians, they needed overtime to outlast a pesky Russia 5-4.

Connor McDavid had two assists in Canada's 2-0 first half flurry as Colton Parayko struck on the power play at 4:45 of the first period and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins made it 2-0 with his power play tally at 11:51 of the second period.

The Russians refused to quit though.

Ilya Mikheyev gave Russia a lifeline at 12:53 and Alexander Barabanov completed Russia's second period dominance with a goal on a delayed penalty at 17:32 as the game headed to the third period tied 2-2.

Kyle Turris made it 3-2 Canada at 7:32 of the third period before Russia made it 3-3 when Sergei Barabanov struck at 8:44.

Pierre-Luc Dubois made it 4-3 Canada at 12:36 before Russia forced overtime when Artem Anisimov replied for the Russians at 14:34.

Russian goalie Igor Shestyorkin had 37 saves in the game, but Ryan O'Reilly beat him on the power play at 4:57 of the first overtime period.

McDavid had three assists in the game, all on Canada's three goals with the man advantage.

Canada awaits the winner of Finland-Switzerland in the semifinals.

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"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose." - Ayrton Senna

Re: 2017-18 NHL Hockey Season Thread

The Tampa Bay Lightning regained home ice as they won two games at Capital One Arena over the Washington Capitals after a 4-2 victory in Game 2.

Should the Caps lose this series, it will be the 11th time in their history two blow a two-game best-of-series lead and lose the series.

Dmitry Orlov helped the Caps surface first though when he unleashed a laser beam from close range 4:28 into the game to give Washington a 1-0 lead.

However, the Bolts scored the next two goals of the game to take a 2-1 lead after the first 20 minutes.

Brayden Point tied the game at 1-1 at 5:38, 1:10 after Orlov opened the scoring for his seventh of the playoffs and the Lightning power play continues to stay hot when Steven Stamkos scored his seventh of the playoffs at 8:32/

Washington made it a 2-2 game after two periods in reply as Evgeny Kuznetsov scored his 10th of the postseason at 5:18 of the second period.

But Alex Killorn untied the game at 11:57 of the third period for his fifth of the postseason and Anthony Cirelli sealed it with an empty netter with two seconds go.

Tampa Bay netminder Andrei Vasilevskiy had another stellar game with 36 saves.

Game 5 inside Tampa Bay's Amalie Arena on Saturday with the series tied 2-2.

"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose." - Ayrton Senna